🎵"Boomers got the Vax" 🎵

[Anonymous]

"...people make a tidy living giving corporate presentations on this type of stuff. I just sat through one for course credits and he specifically characterized Boomers as spending everything they've got before they die and "sliding in [to the grave] with the wheels on fire." ... leaving nothing behind is a legitimate characteristic of that generation. As are selfishness, failure to protect the environment, and general sense that public goods (land, public services, etc) are to be used up by them without thought to leaving anything for other people."

"The training I sat through had an interesting bit about the rewards each generation finds most motivating. The generation before Boomers valued security over all, the Boomers value status, older Gen X value knowledge, younger Gen X and older Gen Y value inclusion, and younger Gen Y value freedom."

I hope your company has a great legal team. If they officially supported this training they are supporting age discrimination. If younger generations value "knowledge, inclusion" then someone younger should have stood up and said NO STEREOTYPES are acceptable including those related to age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"...people make a tidy living giving corporate presentations on this type of stuff. I just sat through one for course credits and he specifically characterized Boomers as spending everything they've got before they die and "sliding in [to the grave] with the wheels on fire." ... leaving nothing behind is a legitimate characteristic of that generation. As are selfishness, failure to protect the environment, and general sense that public goods (land, public services, etc) are to be used up by them without thought to leaving anything for other people."

"The training I sat through had an interesting bit about the rewards each generation finds most motivating. The generation before Boomers valued security over all, the Boomers value status, older Gen X value knowledge, younger Gen X and older Gen Y value inclusion, and younger Gen Y value freedom."

I hope your company has a great legal team. If they officially supported this training they are supporting age discrimination. If younger generations value "knowledge, inclusion" then someone younger should have stood up and said NO STEREOTYPES are acceptable including those related to age.

“Age-based prejudice is the last acceptable form of prejudice,” says New York University’s Michael North, who studies ageism in the workplace. “People are making age-based generalizations and stereotypes that you wouldn’t be able to get away with about race or background. Insert some sort of racial or ethnic group, or ‘OK Woman,’ and it wouldn’t go over too well.”

[Anonymous]

didn't boomers themselves come up with "don't trust anyone over 30"?

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Anonymous wrote:I love how it highlights in a humorous way how greedy and entitled boomers are. They are truly the generation that got theirs and then pulled up the ladder behind them.

I don’ know. It’s my gen x parents that are selfish.

Nice try, boomer.

gen x is pretty much the least selfish generation. We don't give AF but we aren't hoarding all the Fs.

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The training I sat through had an interesting bit about the rewards each generation finds most motivating. The generation before Boomers valued security over all, the Boomers value status, older Gen X value knowledge, younger Gen X and older Gen Y value inclusion, and younger Gen Y value freedom.

That is interesting. I think I mostly buy it; seems pretty accurate.

+1 (older Gen X)

Medium-range Gen X here and jesus, I'm just happy I finally paid off my stupid student loans! I don't need much anything else. Inclusion, knowledge, whatever. Well, a bit of money for retirement would be good.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, it’s just a string of tired boomer tropes set to a hip-hop beat.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.

Are you kidding me, it was hilarious! It's time for Boomers to be able to take a little joke, especially when so much of it rings true

I think one of the funniest things about Boomers is how they absolutely refuse to acknowledge there's anything funny about Boomers

I say this as someone who loves many Boomers. My beloved parents are Boomers (actually a bit older, but that's their generation culturally speaking). I adore their friends. And at the same time - my lord people, look in the mirror once in a while!

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Anonymous wrote:didn't boomers themselves come up with "don't trust anyone over 30"?

Nope. That was Jack Weinberg, who was a Berkeley activist. He was born in 1940.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg

Pretty much as soon as Boomers could vote, they were as conservative as their parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very funny. I want to send it to my boomer parents, but I’m afraid they won’t see the humor.

Speaking as a boomer parent, no, don't see the humor.

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Anonymous wrote:Very funny. I want to send it to my boomer parents, but I’m afraid they won’t see the humor.

They might not since they may have seen parents, family, friends, and others die during this pandemic. Maybe the humor applies to the 1% but what about the rest?

Go to any underprivileged community and see how many Boomers are still working, including fast food jobs, just to get by. They don't even own one home let alone 5.

Show them this video and see how hard they laugh.

Thanks for posting this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is very funny but I am always puzzled at the boomer hate. The boomer generation invented a lot of great stuff including rock n roll, women's equality, the internet, personal computers, cell phones, etc. Don't hate the boomers.

What bothers me is generalizing about people based on their generation, period -- regardless of whether it's young or old people. We wouldn't do that based on race or gender or sexual orientation but people think this is okay.

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Anonymous wrote:I sent it my boomer (much) older sibling. I have lots of relatives and friends that are boomers—I think individually they are all great. But the truth is that the world sort of catered to them because of their numbers. In the 40s and 50s, it was all about raising big families and culture revolves around that—radio flyer, howdy doody, Lone Ranger, etc....in the 60s and 70s, it was all about youth counter culture and the summer of love. In the 80, they got jobs and suddenly greed was good and taxes were bad. Now they are old and so when a virus started killing old people in large numbers, it became a big deal very quickly.
I love my boomer friends and family and don’t think they are selfish. But they need to be able to take some gentle ribbing about their place in society. Plus yes, all my boomer friends are planning great vacations with their vaccinations while I’m stuck supervising my kids distance learning and hoping to get the vax for myself starting next month.

That's cool. Do you say that to your friends of other races as well?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s all fun and games until you realize that thanks to this vaccine we are going to be stuck with Boomers for another 20 years. Ugh.

Sorry we didn't die off fast enough for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, it’s just a string of tired boomer tropes set to a hip-hop beat.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.

Are you kidding me, it was hilarious! It's time for Boomers to be able to take a little joke, especially when so much of it rings true

Do you say that to your Black friends when White performers dress up like them and make "a little joke"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Age-based prejudice is the last acceptable form of prejudice,” says New York University’s Michael North, who studies ageism in the workplace. “People are making age-based generalizations and stereotypes that you wouldn’t be able to get away with about race or background. Insert some sort of racial or ethnic group, or ‘OK Woman,’ and it wouldn’t go over too well.”

Michael North share the common academic affliction that if he's not studying it, it's not there.

And anytime someone refers to anything as the "last acceptable prejudice," you know you're looking at someone who is fine with their own various forms of privilege and fuming about the ones they don't have.

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Anonymous wrote:“Age-based prejudice is the last acceptable form of prejudice,” says New York University’s Michael North, who studies ageism in the workplace. “People are making age-based generalizations and stereotypes that you wouldn’t be able to get away with about race or background. Insert some sort of racial or ethnic group, or ‘OK Woman,’ and it wouldn’t go over too well.”

Michael North share the common academic affliction that if he's not studying it, it's not there.

And anytime someone refers to anything as the "last acceptable prejudice," you know you're looking at someone who is fine with their own various forms of privilege and fuming about the ones they don't have.

DP here. Maybe it's not the "last" acceptable prejudice (FTR there are some others out there like classism), but it's certainly considered acceptable. And seriously, pp, you are fine with this? It sounds like you're the one who is fine with your own form of privilege. Folks, it's wrong to stereotype people based on their age (whether young or old) just as it's wrong to do it based on race, class, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc. I will continue to defend young people against attacks from other people who make sweeping generalizations about them. Will you do the same for older people as well as young people? Or is that ruining your fun?